If you are celebrating a “Posts” milestone this week, please let Manju (Alternative) know, you can contact him at hunterbhai at hotmail dot com

If you would like to discuss anything to do with the awards, please let me know, you can contact me on kehlers at iprimus dot com dot au

If you notice a post or thread that you think is worthy of an award please contact Marc at marc at robbins46 dot freeserve dot co dot uk

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If you notice any worthy nominees for the Sir Geoffrey or AA awards this week, please let Dravid know, you can contact him at nnindia at hotmail dot com

If you notice any worthy nominees for the Afridi or Hussey awards this week, please let adharcric know, you can contact him at adhar at berkeley dot edu

Best of The Best

1. Shahid Afridi Award for (Best post of the week) Like an innings by the great man, it does not have to be very long, to be great viewing. And the Winner is: Burgey for this click here Summed it up nicely, you just can’t manufacture tradition

2. Shane Warne Award for (Best thread of the week) Like his bowling it must be interesting but just like his private life it can also be controversial. And the Winner is aussie tragic for this click here , Very interesting thread, was very surprised by the lack of posts?

3. The Skull Award (Funniest poster for the week) Just like the king of the one liner Kerry O’Keefe, can also be serious. And the Winner is: No award this week. Found some decent humour but nothing we thought deserved the Skull

4. The Sobers Award (Most varied poster of the week) The true all-rounder of CW you must be able to contribute to a number of threads. And the Winner is: Anil , all over the boards this week, and not afraid to give an opinion

5. Tony Greig Award (Worst prediction of the week) Will he ever live down that ‘We will make them grovel’ prediction re- the West Indies? And the Winner is: Pasag click here I wanted to choose one from the final, so here it is

6. Inzamam Award (Vaguest poster of the week) We are not sure what he is talking about, but we hope he knows. And the Winner is: Fraz click here What the? We had about a dozen Fraz posts to choose from this week!

7. The Sir Geoffrey Award (Most knowledgeable poster of the week) We were going to call this the Richie Benaud award, but after speaking to Boycs, he assured us he new twice as much as Richie. And the Winner is: silentstriker, The run continues, well done SS

8. The Bradman Award (Overall CW poster of the week) Simply the best no matter what the debate or criteria. And the Winner is: no award this week

Agarkar/Mohammed award for ('At least their trying' award)
just like the players this award is named after, they may not be quite good enough for any other award, but at least we remember them. And the Winner is: abu, new poster, lets just say he has a lot of opinions

10. The Mike Hussey award for best newcomer (less then 500 posts), not too many have had a great debut and continued success like “Mr Cricket” And the Winner is: aussie tragic top poster, lets hope he sticks around for many more awards.

The Gatting V Rana award for the best debate of the week, and the winners are: Sanz & silentstriker click here I thought they argued well, and summed up both sides feelings nicely. I could have chosen one of the other 20 Hair threads, but I enjoyed reading this one the most

Please remember, these awards are not officially endorsed by CW management

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Assalam o Alaikum ! First of all thanx to Allah ! The boys is try tooo hard , Silent Striker is gave loose post , And the Post was coming on the board and I take the play very hard and I put the post into the gaps ! We inshallah work hard in the future ! The boys are working too hard ! Thanks You !!!!!!

4. The Sobers Award (Most varied poster of the week) The true all-rounder of CW you must be able to contribute to a number of threads. And the Winner is: Anil , all over the boards this week, and not afraid to give an opinion

In the end, I think it's so utterly, incomprehensibly boring. There is so much context behind each innings of cricket that dissecting statistics into these small samples is just worthless. No-one has ever been faced with the same situation in which they come out to bat as someone else. Ever.

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Assalam o Alaikum ! First of all thanx to Allah ! The boys is try tooo hard , Silent Striker is gave loose post , And the Post was coming on the board and I take the play very hard and I put the post into the gaps ! We inshallah work hard in the future ! The boys are working too hard ! Thanks You !!!!!!

* Initialy censored cuz of respect

That is what we call dedication.

Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Lick once and you suck forever...

RIP Fardin Qayyumi, a true legend of CW

Originally Posted by Boobidy

Bradman never had to face quicks like Sharma and Irfan Pathan. He wouldn't of lasted a ball against those 2, not to mention a spinner like Sehwag.